Dec 19-20 2025 AIARE Motorized Level 1 - Utah

Dec 19th-20th 2025

Course Description

The AIARE 1 is a three-day / 24-hour introduction to avalanche hazard management. Zoom classroom session and two days on snow.

Students can expect to develop a good grounding in how to prepare for and carry out a backcountry trip, to understand basic decision making while in the field, and to learn rescue techniques required to find and dig up a buried person (if an avalanche occurs and someone in the party is caught).

Who Should Take this Course

The Motorized AIARE 1 is for snowbike and snowmobilers, who wants to recreate in or near avalanche terrain. Participants may have attended some awareness classes or workshops or completed the Avalanche Rescue course, but none are a prerequisite for this course.

Aspiring professionals will need to take the AIARE 1 and Avalanche Rescue as a prerequisite for the Pro 1 course.

Student Learning Outcomes

At the end of the AIARE 1 course, the student should be able to:

• Develop a plan for travel in avalanche terrain.
• Demonstrate the ability to identify avalanche terrain.
• Effectively use The AIARE Risk Management Framework to make terrain choices in a group setting.
• Demonstrate effective companion rescue.

Prerequisites

Students must be able to snowmobile or snowbike. There are no other prerequisites.

The AIARE 1 is a two day course that provides an introduction to using decision making tools to help a group manage risk while traveling in avalanche terrain. Students can expect to develop a good grounding in how to prepare for and carry out a backcountry trip, to understand basic decision making while in the field, and to learn rescue techniques required to find and dig up a buried person (if an avalanche occurs and someone in the party is caught). Course days are 10 hour minimum. 

These private courses are available to you and your group if our public course dates don't align with your schedule. 

Instructors: DJ Osborne

Class Location: Uinta Mountains, UT

Precourse Work: Done at your own pace, the earlier you sign up the more time you have to complete the precourse work.  

Schedule:

• Dec 18th Evening Online Classroom - 6pm-9pm
• Dec 19th On Snow Day 1: 8am-4pm
  
• Dec 20th On Snow Day 2: 8am-4pm